Uzi Death

A teenager who supervised an 8-year-old who shot himself with an Uzi submachine gun at a 2008 gun fair testified Friday that he told the boy’s father that “it wasn’t a good idea” to let the child fire it.

An official of the gun club where an 8-year-old Connecticut boy accidentally killed himself with an Uzi submachine gun at an exhibition has testified he wouldn’t have allowed the child to fire the weapon.